Oh boy, Andy Weir and Rob Manning together this week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar

system and beyond.

He is the author of the Martian Artemis and Project Hail Mary.

The other guy is the Jack Propulsion Lab's chief engineer, a position he reached after

establishing himself as the go-to guy for safely landing robots on Mars.

Both have been heard here many times.

I have dreamed of getting them together.

Now with just three episodes to go as host, Andy and Rob will join me for one of the most

entertaining, provocative, funny, and enlightening conversations in our 20-year history.

It's also one of the longest, but I don't think most of you will mind.

And if you stay till the end, you'll hear Bruce Bats reacting well to the 20th anniversary

gift I'll give him.

In coming host Sarah Alamed will be here in a minute to help us celebrate the very successful

completion of the Artemis I mission.

And as you'll hear me mention to Sarah, I spent a couple of delightful hours at Navy-based

San Diego on board the USS Portland.

In that great ship's cavernous semi-submersible bay, sat the Artemis I Orion capsule.

The December 9 edition of the downlink our free weekly newsletter came out too soon to

capture the splashdown, but it does mark the 50th anniversary of the last time humans visited

the moon.

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